How The Anti-War Left Evades Realityby Esther Hartstein 6
February 2003

Oblivious to the numbers
showing women to be more pro-war than men, the anti-war Left
accuses Bush of waging “war on women."

We have all seen
them, standing proud and haughty under their “no war!” banners, condemning
the United States for planning war against Iraq’s dictatorial regime.
Oblivious to the numbers showing women to be more pro-war than men, they
accuse Bush of waging “war on women”. Oblivious to the ongoing enslavement
of Negro Christians in the Sudan, the “peaceniks” decry a war on primarily
Arab terrorists as a “racist war”, watering down complex foreign policy
issues to alleged racial motives in an example of the stunning cognitive
dissonance of the Left.

Cognitive dissonance,
in fact, seems to loom as the root of anti-war hysteria in the Leftist
camp. On one hand, they are convinced that no war is worth fighting. On
the other hand, they are helplessly being confronted with the reality
of war as a deterrent to people who want to nuke us out. The loud conflict
threatens to jar the leftist out of his well-fortified intellectual comfort
zone, where everything can be seamlessly summed up to evil on behalf of
the United States, leaving him desperate to stay inside. His defense mechanism?
Denial. Pure, unadulterated denial.

To the ignorant
mind, the Left may appear to present some decent arguments: “It’s not
a war of defense if we strike before they do”, “No weapons have been found
in the enemy’s hands yet”, ( I suppose those empty warheads were intended
for the long-range distribution of food to the needy, eh?) “Civilians
will be killed”, etc., etc. However, these excuses seem to take no heed
of the present reality: There is a mass murderer running Iraq with an
air force and nuclear capacity, capable and willing to destroy every last
citizen of the United States. With proven connections to Mohammed Atta,
the leader of the 9/11 hijackers responsible for the World Trade Center’s
destruction, this mass murderer cannot be bargained with or bought off.
He will give everything, including his life and the lives of his followers,
to see you and your loved ones killed. With today’s technology, he can
do that in a nanosecond. The only thing standing between the world as
you know it and a total nuke- out is a pre-emptive strike (and warmongers
like President Bush who want you to know it). But the liberal does not
want to hear it. It is easier for him to scream “no war!” than to filthy
his utopian psyche with the notion of himself as a target.

Given the dangers
we face as a nation, our strong, brave, and noble leader George W Bush
has devoted much of his busy schedule toward alerting the public about
the state of their safety. The man has been a humanitarian in every way:
planning the creation of a democratic state, spending U.S. dollars on
protecting the civilians of Iraq, diplomatically laying out his reasoned
ideas before the world. So why are the liberals so furious at him? Why
are their attacks so vehement, their anger so fiery? Why do they want
the President’s head on a platter?

Let’s start by exploring
why people hate in the first place. Hatred of people springs from a hatred
of something which the targeted person appears to represent. In order
to hate that “something” in the first place, you have to find it threatening
to you in some way. In other words, the liberals hate Bush because he
appears to stand for something they find threatening. What would that
be? Why, the irking reality of a possible nuke-out. The liberal wants
to believe that such a thing can never happen. He clings to this belief.
He want to do away with any exceptions to his absolutist, “no war” philosophy.
And President Bush, with his unwavering belief that we have to fight Iraqi
dictator Saddam Hussein is a threat to Heaven’s Truth as the leftist knows
it.

Thus, the Left is
not merely inflamed by President Bush. If that were the case, then their
hatred would simply be a matter of them disagreeing with his policies.
But no. Fox News Channel also inflames the Left. Pundits inflame the Left.
Scholars inflame the Left. The American people inflame the Left. All of
this militancy over a few potential casualties in Iraq? I don’t think
so.

Another facilitator
of delusional Leftist thought is France. That’s right, France. As one
of only a couple of European countries to oppose war in Iraq, France is
a hotbed of anti- American sentiment. Over 80% of French people oppose
this war, seeing it as an “imperial war over oil”. Though such numbers
are rampant in Europe and not restricted to France, this country is the
worst of the pack. Though they decry a U.S. war as “oil motivated”, it
is common knowledge that France has some extensive oil deals with Saddam’s
regime. These hypocrites would see the whole world nuked just for their
own oil profit, and in their fanaticism fail to realize that democratic
countries (like the one Bush wants to create) make better trading partners
than kookocracies like Iraq. War over oil, indeed.

As for the “U.S.
is imperialist!” school of French criticism, let me tell you, this is
all hogwash at best. For starters, French troops have been busy of late
in its not-so-former colony in Western Africa, the Ivory Coast. Obstructing
the popular government of that region, the French have been confiscating
Ivorian land and handing it over to fanatics in the North. If that's not
imperialism, tell me what is. What we Americans are doing is just a mainstream
war.

The Left is so full
of itself that it is heading for explosion. And it is exploding already,
on the streets of our cities, waving their stupid signs and chanting cheesy
slogans. While the Right is out defending its country, the Left is out
defending something that is far more important to them- the safety of
their minds from unpleasant truths. And they would see you nuked in the
process.

A
multi-award winning poet, Esther has written a book, "Eros Wins The
Battle", about a U.S. immigrant fighting for regime change in her
native country. The book, filled with Greek myths and poetry, is available
at BN.com (Barnes and Nobel)
and Amazon.com.